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PATIENTS: IS IT SAFE FOR YOU TO HAVE SURGERY DURING THE COVID PANDEMIC AS OF MAY 2020?

The Anesthesia Consultant

An important question for many Americans is, “Is it safe for me to have surgery during this COVID pandemic?” The main questions as to whether a hospital or an ambulatory surgery center can resume elective surgery as of May 2020 are: What is the incidence of COVID-19 in your geographic area? It depends.

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ANESTHESIA IN OUTER SPACE 

The Anesthesia Consultant

Because the spaceship is more than 200 days away from Earth, the physicians instruct the crew to proceed with surgery and anesthesia in outer space. How will astronauts conduct general anesthesia and surgery in outer space? GENERAL ANESTHESIA General anesthesia has the advantages of a quick and reliable onset.

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THE TOP 20 DOCTORS IN THE HISTORY OF ANESTHESIA

The Anesthesia Consultant

Dr. Long performed multiple surgeries using this technique, but did not publish his findings until seven years later in 1849 in The Southern Medical and Surgical Journal. As a result, there is a dispute whether Dr. William Morton (below) discovered ether anesthesia first. He performed the first surgery under spinal anesthesia in 1899.

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FENTANYL AND THE OPIOID CRISIS: AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST’S PERSPECTIVE

The Anesthesia Consultant

Fentanyl is the most commonly administered narcotic during surgery in the United States. Fentanyl is an essential ingredient in the pharmaceutical armamentarium of acute care medicine in hospitals, surgery centers, intensive care units, and emergency rooms throughout the United States. On the streets, fentanyl is killing people.

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MOCK ORAL BOARD EXAMS

The Anesthesia Consultant

Faculty Member B), and in the final 10 minutes Faculty Member A asks questions about three completely different patients with assorted anesthesia dilemmas. How would hypoglycemia present during general anesthesia? Would you extubate the patient following the surgery? She needs emergency surgery to save her eyesight.

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12 MEDICAL INACCURACIES IN FAMOUS MOVIE SCENES. AN ANESTHESIOLOGIST’S ANALYSIS

The Anesthesia Consultant

We do send blood samples from a radial artery to a lab to diagnose blood levels, but the lab results take time to be processed. The premise of Coma was that healthy young patients were developing brain death after general anesthesia, for no apparent reason. While he is awake he overhears the surgeon’s plan to murder him.